Quotes from Tommy Chong

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Fuck you, Taft.

The only proper prayer is one of gratitude for your knowledge to ask for wisdom and understanding.

We are here to experience life and to learn to be thankful for our experiences regardless of how brutal they might be. Pain is a reminder that we are alive. ...enjoy the pain now, for pain will help lead us to understanding and growth.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.